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I'm siding over here because if i didn't it would make me a huge ass hypocrite, but I think cutting is kinda dumb. It hurts other people too when they find out. I used to cut all the time, but then i had a glimpse of what it did to my friends and I really hated myself because of it. Now...I don't really do it, but it's not like I'm trying to say i won't do it again. I know at some point in time i'll have the urge to do it again. I don't wanna sit here and say I will for a fact do it again, but it is a big possibility. =/ If that helps. Probably not, but I tried.
Oh dear, medically misinformed fodder galore. I can't possibly win from such a futile debate, but oh well, Tally ho!
Allow me to shed some light to this matter; I say to hell with anyone who perpetually pulls out "it doesn't allow you to face your problems". Damn it all, humans are stupid little creatures and the majority will be as such. In reality, we are all cowards trying to run from our realities.
First, I will say this; Two main reasons: One, cutting and other forms of pain trigger the release of endorphins, which make you feel good. Allowing the neurological conditions to focus more on physical pains rather than mental stress, releasing unpleasant feelings like sadness, anger, frustration, anxiety, and self-loathing. After cutting, mood often increases because these negative emotions have been dispelled.
Secondly; in terms of cognitive neurology, humans altogether just love the feeling of having control over their lives, no matter what the method is.
So, in this sense, yes it does.
Edit: Personally, I think low of anyone who does this.
But nevertheless, regardless of how stupid their methods are, it certainly helps the majority.
It does release endorphins and provide a sense of power, but its a a behavior which causes more pain in the long run for short term releases from problems it can never solve. Its a behavior which is likely to be compulsive and destructive, the 'help' it gives is the same type of 'help' alcohol may give an alcoholic.
I have to say that yes, it does help. Cutters usually have an inner pain that is stifling and they need a physical outer pain to lessen the inner pain. Cutting achieves this and in the process, it lengthens the pain for a considerable amount of time depending on how deep the cut is which enables a decent lengthed time-out period of a simpler pain as opposed to the inner hell that the person is experiencing. Although the pain is temporary and the inner pain will rise soon, it achieves its purpose; distraction. This pushes down the inner pain and gives him/her a break from the emotional hell that the person is experiencing.
cutting yourself does help, momentarily, and it can be addicting, cutting ones skin results in the release of an endorphine that hinders the feeling of pain within the body, i have had experiance with this at different stages in my life, however, it quickly moved from cutting to beating a punching bag until the skin on my knuckles was completely obliterated, simply because it made me feel really good.. however, i have since moved on with my life, i find other ways, like music to sooth my anger, it does help, but there are other things, and just know, if anyone needs someone to talk to, you may not know me, but i love being a shoulder to lean on, shoot me a pm and we can chat and maybe even debate more personal things, it always used to help me!
There are far better ways to get through a bad phase than hurting yourself - whether physically or psychologically. I experimented a little with cutting in my early teen years, and all it did was suck me into a deeper depression, because it kept my attention focused on whatever was letting me down.
These days, when I feel sucky, I watch a few movies in a row, or read an entire book series. This sort of thing distracts me from my emotions for a while, and by the time I'm done watching/reading, I've put enough distance between myself and whatever made me feel bad that I can carry on with my life again.
cutting lets you feel pshyical pain instead of dealing with the emotional. but what happens when that pshyical pain is gone? the emotional pain comes back 10 times as hard and kicks you in the butt! ive never cut but ive seen friends and not once has it ever truly help them...... just makes them feel worse......
While I am neither for or against cutting I did feel the need to set your obviously ignorant view straight. I am a past cutter. I have the word rape carved into my leg. I have large red scars down my arms and I have scars that are inside, ones no one else has ever seen. I wouldn't call them minor. I would label them as permanent reminders. However, it was never for attention. I was loved. I have a mother and a father who adore me. I have two caring brothers and best friends that would have been there for me if I had merely picked up the phone, for no reason at all. So attention was never a factor. My cutting was a physical way to express to MYSELF the mental and emotional pain that I was enduring as a result of a sexual crime that had been committed against me. There are times in a persons life that no matter how large your support system is, you have a battle you wrongly feel that only you can fight. It starts to overwhelm you to the point that you aren't sure how to let it out and a logical conclusion at the time SEEMS TO BE cutting. I ask that instead of posting ignorant debate answers you read up on the subject first. By the way. I AM menatlly disturbed! I have bipolar. The definition fits and it is a shoe I gladly wear. However, this doesn't mean I will randomly fly into a murderous rage or even say mean things to mean people. Nor will I start to cut of limbs. Oh, and it's spelled "Fucktards" although it's not really a word at all.
You're right. A mental problem. It is completely mental that you would need to bring mean comments and your "slang" into what could have been a proper debate. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity and you're beginning to side with the latter. Yes, by the way, I do need you to clarify something for me. Do you have a medical degree? Do you have any experience whatsoever with mental disturbances or even cutting? If not then why are you acting as if you do? Just because you don't personally cut or because you may not completely understand the concept doesn't mean it is a necessarily bad idea. Again, I'm not for it. However, it does have a medical study that stands behind the fact that it provides a temporary physical relief. Are you willing to undo years of medical study performed by scientists and educated men and women because of your ignorance? It is people like you that make people like me live with a stigma for YEARS after we have cut or otherwise hurt ourselves. It makes forgiving ourselves impossible.
Because it has yet to be years for me. I have still not had years to heal from the damage I inflicted upon myself and it pains me to hear and witness people speaking on the subject out of ignorance and a clear lack of knowledge.
While I have never tried it and don't intend to, I can see someone's level of frustration getting to the point where they need to reach out for help and use this as a method.
The attention you get from people by cutting oneself is them being terrified. When you feel like you are worthless, do something to change your viewpoint, do not cause negative attention. Go to the source of the problem and fight the problem. be assertive when it comes to your beliefs. Those who make you feel less of a person always do so intentionally, and they will pay for it by suffering at least 10 years in hell whether you believe it or not. God is real, and He created us all equal to each other. It is just that some strengths need to be discovered and activated, while others are apparent. Besides, you could cut a major artery or vain regardless of how lightly you cut yourself - even if it is a small chance, it is still not worth doing.
I used to know someone who would cut herself and no longer does it because she realized it did nothing but leave scars bigger than the ones she started with. I never saw the point in it and I guess I never will. Why people want to cure one pain with another and still feel the same after is beyond me.
Cutting may be stupid, but that doesn't make the people that do it or that have done it a pussy by any means. Just saying. I know someone, my best friend, that has done it and now is a extremely strong person. She's no pussy. She's one of the strongest people I know actually.
But she is strong. She's stronger than anybody you probably even care to think about. She's amazingly strong and she always will be. No matter what you or anyone else thinks.
No but she wasn't. Probably isn't actually. You probably munched her carpet, that's why you think she's so fucking amazing... but the mere fact that she has ever cut herself shows she's weak or has been at one point.
She is. I didn't "munch her carpet," I think she's amazing because shes proven that to me. You should really stop judging people because they did something stupid once upon a time. Just because people did something stupid earlier in life doesn't mean they are weak or ever were. I'm sure you've done something stupid in your life, did it make you a weak person?
Yep, I've done loadsa stupid things. I've done a few 'weak' things... but I know what they are and I can admit they were weak moments. So again your 'friend' is weak. Suck my dick.
She is weak you fool. It's simple to explain. If you thought she wasn't weak then and is still not weak now, then she's always been weak. You're just an idiot and can't see through your lesbian fantasy.
You are ridiculous. I'm not in a lesbian fantasy to have to see through. I just look up to the freaking girl. Can't I be a lesbian without having to like every girl I'm friends with? Apparently not.
That's because you haven't been with a man. If you've ever had real sex you'd actually like it. Don't sit there saying homos don't like sex. It's all they do.
I have been with more of man then you'll ever be. I've had "real sex" and still I don't like it. I will sit here and say that....every homosexual that I've ever talked to has hated sex.
Yeah suck on that asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!▒
You're all full of shit. Anybody who says they hate sex is lying. Everybody loves sex. Maybe they hated things about sex i.e. the person they did it with, how they did it, where they did it etc. but nobody hates sex. If you guys actually hate sex then you're proving my point about how homosexuals are just mentally and biologically retarded and should be treated as a mental illness, like downs syndrome.
Even heterosexuals, more heteros than homos, actually, hate sex. Well, at least don't like it. And she's right. Many homosexuals don't like to have sex. I personally love sex, but that's because I'm just a freak. And cuz I'm good at it. Haha. But like I have said, many people, heteros and homos alike, don't like sex.
Thank you Roberto for backing me up. :) I hate the fact that this debate was about cutting and Cuntyguy changed the conversation into the fact that he hates homosexuals, yet again. Thanks Cuntyguy for the proof once again that you are a discrimminating homophobe.
Apearently you have no morals either, hiding behind the guise of the internet huh? I used to do that, untill I took an arro- Oh oops, its slips out sometimes.
i disagree i dont kno u or ur friend but she was weak while she was doing it but having the will to stop made her strong not she she is a pussy tho but ur weak if u even think u can beat (or cut) ur self but i do understand that it would help u (well kinda) see i saw this comercial that had this girl on there and she was like i cut myself to make sure i can still feel and i was at a low point in my life before and when u hurt that bad u go numb (i never cut myself tho becuase ... i mean ow!!) but anyways ur friend was weak good news SHES NOT ANYMORE YAY THRO A PARTY
I've only done it once and now every time I see the scars, i can actually remember feeling the physical pain and it kinda sucks. It didn't help me deal with anything. All it did was make my friends REALLY mad at me. I could probably never do it again. To do it the first time took all my will power. (Probably because I hate pain and I can't stand the thought of blood)
If your in pain the only way you need to deal with it is mentally! You can't ease your pain trying all the Gateway theories where you assume your pain reduces as your succumbed into something more physical a pain It is wrong... No matter how right it seems... Hurting your self is Ingratitude to yourself!
I've got nothing against suicide, depression, and the like, but cutting yourself it just an idiotic way to stain your couch and ruin a nice knife. If you're going to cut yourself, it's down the street, not across the road.